Painter&#39;s bucket-bracket.



No. 780,205. PATENTED JAN. 17, 1905.

' J. H. LANEY.

PAINTERS BUCKET BRACKET.

APPLIGATION FILED JULY 1,1904.

UNITED STATES Patented January 1'7, 1905.

JOHN H. LANEY, OF SAVANNAH, MISSOURI.

PAINTERS BUCKET-BRACKET SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 780,205, dated January 1'7, 1905.

Application filed July 1, 1904:. Serial No. 215,029.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN H. LANEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Savannah, in the county of Andrew and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Painters Bucket-Brackets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to hooks used by painters for holding buckets of paint, and has for its object the provision of a hook that is readily attached to and detached from the side of a shingled or weather-boarded house.

To this end my invention consists of a hook member provided with ahorizontal extension and an angular offset having a spur to pierce one of the shingles or weather-boards and a bracing member secured adjacentto the hook member provided with a thin flattened end that is adapted to be inserted under the overlapping edge of another shingle or weatherboard.

The construction and advantages of my invention will be understood from the following description and by an inspection of the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a view of a fragment of the side of a house, showing my invention in operation; and Fig. :2, a view in perspective of the bracket.

In the drawings similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout both views.

Arepresents the shingles or weather-boards on the house exterior B.

My improved bracket consists of a hook member C, having a horizontal extension D, having a downwardly-extending projection E, provided with a spike F, and an upwardly-extending bracing member G, secured to or integral with the extension D, adjacent to the hook member C, the free end of member Gr being flattened and bent, as shown at H.

It will be readily understood from an in spection of the drawings that in operation the flattened end H is inserted beneath the overlapping edge of one of the shingles or weatherboards A, while the spike F pierces another shingle or weather board below the firstnamed board or shingle.

I prefer to make the spike F with a slant downwardly, because such slant would make it more effective in operation; but this is not essential, and I do not, therefore, confine myself to this construction.

Having thus described my invention, what 1 claim as new is- 1. In a bucket-bracket, a hook, a horizontal extension integral therewith, a downwardly-projecting portion at the end of said horizontal extension, a spike integral with said downwardly-projecting portion, and a brace integral with said horizontal extension and extending from the hook end thereof upwardly, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a bucket-bracket, a hook, a horizontal extension integral therewith, a downwardly-projecting portion at the end of said horizontal extension, a downwardly-slanting spike integral with said downwardly-projecting portion, a brace integral with said horizontal extension and extending from the hook end thereof upwardly and backwardly, and the end of said brace flattened and bent upwardly, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I hereunto afiix my signature in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN H. LAN EY.

Witnesses:

GRANT MURRAY, J. D. NEATHERY. 

